Blue Spotted Wrasse
Anampses caeruleopunctatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Anampses
Where to Find
Found in 42 diving areas across 29 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 22 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 132 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 11 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 5 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 88 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 12 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 17 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 6 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 8 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 6 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 8 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 8 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 16 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 30 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 16 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 25 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 5 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 7 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 8 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 5 records